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The Windy Pop Weekender hits year two of ‘being super precious and adorable’
Before the COVID pandemic, when Chicagoans Leigh Kelsey and Emily Hilleren began cooking up plans for a local festival dedicated to indie pop and twee, they had a dream lineup in their heads. In a...
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Review: Barbara Forever
Barbara Forever at the Music Box The post Review: <I>Barbara Forever</I> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Liliom makes its Joffrey debut
Liliom, through 9/27, Joffrey Ballet at Lyric Opera House The post <i>Liliom</i> makes its Joffrey debut appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Jason Weaver represents Chicago wherever he goes
Cubs fandom among Black folks usually originates from one of three places: The nationwide reach of WGN-TV, which broadcast Cubs games for 72 years, from 1948 to 2019. Comedian Roy Wood Jr., a...
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Feeble Little Horse diverge from the ever-present presets of shoegaze
Feeble Little Horse Fri 10/9 at Metro The post Feeble Little Horse diverge from the ever-present presets of shoegaze appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Chicago singer-songwriter Marian Runk captures life’s most colorful details
Marian Runk Sat 10/10 at Judson & Moore The post Chicago singer-songwriter Marian Runk captures life’s most colorful details appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Mike Reed’s the Separatist Party creatively cross wires on the new Sing the...
Mike Reed’s the Separatist Party Fri 10/9 at Constellation The post Mike Reed’s the Separatist Party creatively cross wires on the new <i>Sing the Color Blue</i> appeared first on Chicago...
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Review: If I Go Will They Miss Me
If I Go Will Miss Me at the Music Box The post Review: <I>If I Go Will They Miss Me</I> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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The Palestine Film Showcase aids filmmakers in Gaza
September 26 sees the first run of the Palestine Film Showcase at the 18th Street Casa de Cultura in Pilsen. The event spotlights four short films, three by Palestinian filmmakers, along with food,...
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Rocket From the Crypt resurrect their full-throttle punk with Scream,...
Rocket From the Crypt Sat 10/17 at Metro The post Rocket From the Crypt resurrect their full-throttle punk with <I>Scream, Frankenstein, Scream!</I> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Chicago’s French Police play the kind of postpunk that starts movements
French Police Tue 10/18 at Ramova Theatre The post Chicago’s French Police play the kind of postpunk that starts movements appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Rally calls on Governor J.B. Pritzker to honor constitutional right to...
“My husband has a changed heart,” said Denise Bartik, who stood with a crowd of other advocates outside Governor J.B. Pritzker’s office in downtown Chicago on Thursday to call for compassion and a...
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Inside the precarious world of Danny B
It’s 2004. Danny Belrose used to be an up-and-coming Chicago actor with a flourishing drug habit. Now he’s in recovery, driving his van around Portland, Oregon, picking up corpses. Ghosts ride shotgun...
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Beach trash isn’t just for the gulls when the Coffee Fairy and FatCap hit the...
History has forgotten all the trashy, ill-conceived schemes that stumbled into existence in taverns, saloons, and bars. But great, history-making ideas are occasionally hatched in them: The Boston Tea...
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Seismic Waves helped keep Chicago’s baby punk scene fun
Sometimes the Secret History of Chicago Music plays the long game. I’ve been trying to get the story of early local punk band Seismic Waves for almost a decade. Before I explain how I finally...
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E. Saffronia Downing on her new show, “PRESSED FLOWER”
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The lesson no one talks about in 1993’s Rookie of the Year
The post The lesson no one talks about in 1993’s Rookie of the Year appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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Zines are still being printed in the 21st century
The post Zines are still being printed in the 21st century appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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The Attic celebrates circus arts and human resilience
The Attic: Things I've Seen While Lying on My Back, through 10/4 at the Goodman Theatre The post <i>The Attic</i> celebrates circus arts and human resilience appeared first on Chicago...
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The devil meets his match in Witch
Witch, through 10/10, Idle Muse Theatre Company at the Edge Off Broadway The post The devil meets his match in <i>Witch</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.
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